BOXING QUERIES
“Old Timer” writes as follows to “The Dominion”: —“Would you please inform me when and where the Burns-Johnson fight took place and also the Bill LangBob Fitzsimmons fight?” Jack Johnson, the negro, took the heavyweight championship of the world from - Tommy Burns at Sydney on December 26, 1908. Johnson won in the fourteenth round.
The only time Bob Fitzsimmons and Bill Laing met in the ring was in 1909 in Australia, when Lang knocked Fitzsimmons out in the twelfth round. Fitzsimmons was then far past his prime and Lang was at the zenith of his powers, as he had gone 13 rounds with Tommy Burns in a world title bout the year before in Melbourne.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 152, 24 March 1938, Page 15
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117BOXING QUERIES Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 152, 24 March 1938, Page 15
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